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[Pete Tallman <pete_tallman@hotmail.com>]

Stephen wrote: 
>   You want something along these lines, but with more fruit variety?
>   http://www.midfex.org/yale/intro.html

Here in the arid west, I find that Gene Yale's preferred M27 and P22 seem a 
bit uncomfortable, although they are surviving and working. I've had better 
luck with Bud-9 and Mark, which you might consider as alternatives. I avoid 
M-9 due to fireblight susceptibility.  Ott-3 works good too after it's going, 
but it's a real job to get it started as a rootstock -- mine weren't started 
here. 

My closest trees are 2.5-ft spacing, trained as oblique cordons on a 
post-and-wire trellis. Requires a lot of pruning. Top wire is at 7 ft to 
minimize ladder work.  I like the trellis for avoiding wind damage to the 
fruit, since 70 mph winds are routine here. Rows are at 12 ft apart.  

Pete Tallman
Longmont, CO      zone 5 or so

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